Button.



Patented Jan. 2, I900. W. H. LEASE.

BUTTON.

(Application filed Feb. 11, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 6dOA76, dated January 2, 1900. Application filed February 11, 1899. Serial No. 705,272. (No model.)

To (LZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILLIAM HENRY LEASE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-sin Cuff and Collar Buttons and Studs, of which the following is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages resulting from their use, conjointly or otherwise, will be apparent from the following description and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this application, and in which similar letters of reference indicate correspond ing parts, Figure 1 represents my invention applied to a collar, the length of the head of the button being left substantially parallel to the length of the slits of the collar. Fig. 2 represents my invention applied to a collar, the length of the head of the button being turned at right angles to the length of the slits of the collar. it is to be observed that the application of this button to hold together the opposite ends of a cuff or the opposite flaps or halves of an open shirt-front is substantially the same as in the collar, and in these applications it has substantially the same function to perform. The illustration of its application to the collar is therefore deemed sufficient for the purpose of enabling its use and its functions to be comprehended. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a button made according to my invention. Fig. rt represents an elevation of either edge of this button. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section of the button, taken in the plane of the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 3, that end of the section being shown which faces downward in Fig. 3. Fig. Gis an elevation of a modification of a cuff-button embodying my invention.

I will now proceed to describe my invention, and in so doing I will describe, first, its actual construction, and, secondly, its advantages in view of the art to which it stands related.

A indicates the bottom or base of the bution. This bottom is made in any desired or customary manner. .Vhen the button is used for a cuff-button, the base will more often be varied in shape. Thus in G is shown in elevation a cuff-button wherein I have replaced the fiat bottom with a ball F. This part of the button is not novel.

B indicates the shank connected at one end to the bottom or base A. The length of the shank may be varied. Thus when the button is used for a shirt-stud the shank will preferably be shorter than when used for a collar-button. When the button is used for a cuff-button, the shank will preferably be longer than when used for a collar-button. In the illustrative instances in the drawings this bottom is rigidly connected to the shank. The shank is preferably round in cross-see tion (see Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6) and is smooth. This shape enables it when within the slit or slits of the article to be held by it to be readily turned with the least friction and the least effort. To the other end of this shank B is fixedly attached the head 0. This head is of a peculiar shape and of a peculiar size relative to the shank B. First, the bottom of the head is its widest part and its thickest part; secondly, the bottom of the head is of the same thickness as the shankin other words, the thickness of the bottom of the head equals the diameter of the shank; thirdly, the center of the head, particularly as regards the thickness of the head, coincides with the axial center or line (extended) of the shank. Hence anything pressed against the side of the shank in the plane of the edge 0 of the side C of the head will,when moved up onto the head, pass on an even surface and without interruption from the shank to the head, and vice versa. Again, the bottom C of the head inclines from the shank outward and downward to the adjacent end G of the head. Thus the bottom may be said to consist of two hook-like formations, one on the one side of the shank and the other on the opposite side of the shank. Again, the sides C of the head are in flat planes and each, beginning at its respective bottom edge G ,6X- tends upward and continuously toward the other until they meet, or nearly so, at the top C Thus each side is flat and inclined relaa semicircle.

Its thin wedge-shaped head passes through the close slit of a new collar or of a stifflystarched well-ironed collar with ease-more easily, if possible, than an eyelet-opener is passed into such a slit. After being inserted it need not be turned in order to be caused to hold the collar or the like and in order to pre vent it from slipping back and out of the slit or slits, because when the collar or other article is in use the natural tendency of the united ends is to pull apart (to separate) as far as allowed. One of the ends 0 of the head 0 will overlap the adjacent part of the collar, &c., beyond the slit, as shown in Fig. '1. Then the button will hold together the parts it is designed to connect until these are separated by human agency. This it will do i. 6., hold the opposite parts of the collar togetherfor two reasons. The first is that in the majority of instances the elastic pressure of the shirt collar and neck or of the shirt sleeve or cufi tends to draw the opposing portions of the collar, &c.', apart. Thus the end 0? of the button will be compelled to overlap the adjacent portion of the collar beyond the buttonhole-slit. The second reason is that although at times or in certain instances the ends of the collar, &c., may tend to move toward each other the button will prevent their approximation or tendency to so do, because that one of the ends 0 of the buttonhead which is over the collar, &c., and beyond the slit-viz., at m, Fig. 1-will on account of its hook shape dig into or catch upon the collar and refuse to leave such position.

Consequently the button will remain in place; but whenever desired the button can be quickly and readily turned, so that the length of the head will be at right angles to the slit or slits of the collar, &;c., and the hook-shaped ends 0 engage the surface of the collar and materially assist in preventing the button from being turned. In this position the button securely locks together the parts of the textile fabric. For shirt-studs the shank of the button is preferably somewhat diminished in length. It saves the shirt, collar, end, and saves the buttonholes and does not tear them.

A minor advantage is that the top of the button being very light and the base much heavier than the top, should the button fall it is prevented from rolling far and it is thereby more readily found. This position enables the button also to be readily seen and thus found. The head of the button being solid and integral is much more durable than the metal buttons where the head is hollow or attached to the shank by riveting, solder 111g, 850;

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A collar or cuff button, or stud, in which the following combination exists, a base, a

shank extended therefrom, terminating in a head, the edge 0 of which head is curved, the sides 0 of which head are wedge-shaped and incline toward each other from the shank toward the curved edge 0 and the inner portions 0 of said head, at the bottom of the head, inclining from the shank outward and toward the base, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

WILLIAM HENRY LEASE.

Attest:

SAMUEL A. Wnsr, K. SMITH. 

